We are gonna educate our Puppys
We will all be using the same hardware - think of the benefits . . .
. . . Puppy as it was always designed to be
Solid state. Fast, efficient and free to do incredible tricks

Puppi is a good code name for the project. I will be advising with my limited experience , testing and documenting.
The chances of me as a developer [Lobster stifles hysterical laughter] actually creating a Puppi ISO before 2020 are remote.
So I will be instigator of this project.

To be a Puppi we will need some criteria:

- We must run in the 256MB ram of the Pi
This means we can lock the SD card if we wish and write to a second SD media device for config and data or use a USB keydrive. Most likely config is writing back t the SD device - that means the multisession capacity migh be useful.
- Recognizable Puppy scripts and programs
In the Debian Squeeze I am currently experimenting with
I have been able to run
Geany, Midori, Leafpad and install mtpaint, xchat, rox-filer, Inkscape and chromium browser.

I am quite keen on locking the SD boot device - only using it to boot from
Will that be possible?
Basically when you shut down the PupPy
you would have an option on where to save to
SD - in which case it would be unlocked
or a USB connected device like a key drive.

I am not really sure what they are referring to in the above link and how to word a question.
Hope it makes sense to an electronics literate Puppy . . ._________________Puppy WIKI

You need to think to about what parts of the linux file system you want to write to. You will probably need to write temporary files and have a swap file to speed things up.

If the OS is loaded into RAM and you don't want to save any changes then write-protect should be okay.

Personally I think it make more sense not to write protect so you can save personal files to the SD - it seems a bit unnecessary to need SD and USB storage. If your going to use a frugal configuration the baseSFS file can still be read only in the same way.

I wonder if its possible to cross compile ARMv6 on a faster ARMv7 machine?

I am currently running Linux on a Mele A1000 which has a A8 CPU (ARMv7 + hard-floating-point + neon). The CPU is backwards compatible with ARMv6, and I plan to compile some PETs soon, that will run on the RasPi.

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